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History the 2007 Rugby World Cup France: The XV is trailed by England

In 2023, France will host the second World Cup in its history, 16 years after the first. An opportunity to remember some of the highlights of the 2007 edition.

In France, but not only

Of the 48 matches played between September 7 and October 20, four will be relocated to Wales – including France’s quarter-final – and two to Scotland. The cities of Paris, Saint-Denis, Marseille, Bordeaux, Lens, Lyon, Nantes, Toulouse, Saint-Étienne, and Montpellier share the other 42 matches, with the Stade de France hosting the two semi-finals (England-France and South Africa-Argentina) and final South Africa between England.

Packed stadiums and high profits

If France sees its course end prematurely in the last square, “its” World Cup is a popular success. Television is breaking audience records and the stadium occupancy rate is reaching 91%, against 85% initially planned. The organizing committee announced in the wake of the tournament that it had recorded a profit of around €24 million, for a budget of more than €230 million.

First for Portugal

Seventy-two years after playing against its Spanish neighbor in its first official match, Portugal snatches in Uruguay (12-7, 12-18) its qualification for the first World Cup final in its history. Slapped by Scotland (56-10) for their entry into the competition, Os Lobos (“The Wolves”) sank against New Zealand (108-13) a few days later. They will still get a defensive bonus point against Romania (10-14).

The feat of France against All Blacks

It was in Cardiff, in the quarter-finals of “his” World Cup, that France scored one of the greatest performances in its history (20-18) against New Zealand, the most prolific team in the tournament (48 tries, 327 points) despite its premature elimination. Seven years after their last victory against the All Blacks, the Blues imposed on the favorites of the competition an iron defense and took the advantage for the first time of the match in the 69th minute, on a try by Yannick Jauzion transformed by Jean-Baptiste Elissalde. From this evening, we will also remember their memorable response to the traditional haka before kick-off.

Habana goes down in history

After opening his tournament with a festival against Samoa (four tries), Brian Habana equals in the semi-final against Argentina the record of tries scored in a single edition (8), held since 1999 by Jonah Lomu. Crowned best player of the year in the aftermath, the Springboks winger shares today with the New Zealand superstar the record for the most essay score in the World Cup (15) More info.

A second trophy for the Springboks

Battered by Fiji in the quarter-finals, South Africa took the lead in the last 20 minutes (37-20) and then eliminated Argentina (37-13) in the last square. In the final, the Springboks beat England (15-6), the defending champions, in a final without a try. With a Habana at the top (see above) and the best director of the tournament (Montgomery), they lifted their second World Cup after that of 1995.

Guy Môquet’s letter, the end of the Laporte era, Pelous’ farewell

The failure of the Blues, swept in front of their audience by Argentina (34-10) in the match for third place, coincides with the end of the adventure on the bench of Bernard Laporte, appointed coach in 1999. The pre-match is also the scene of an episode that has remained in history. The coach decided to have Guy Môquet’s letter, addressed by this young resistance fighter shot by the Germans in 1941, read to his parents. An initiative that was at the time in line with Nicolas Sarkozy, then President of the Republic and who would appoint Laporte to the government shortly after the World Cup. The President had requested at the time that this letter be read in all French high schools. An approach that had totally deconcentrated the players.

Record holder of selections in the France team (118, including 42 captaincies), the second line Fabien Pelous puts an end to his international career, followed by Christophe Dominici, Raphaël Ibanez, and Serge Betsen. A page is turning.

The XV is trailed by England | Rugby World Cup 2007

For the first Rugby World Cup in France, our XV had absolutely everything prepared. They won 3 of the 4 VI Nations tournaments between the 2 events of 2003 and 2007. However, the World Cup on their soil will obviously not go as planned. They will even achieve the feat of achieving their only feat… in Cardiff.

An almost perfect start to the tournament.

The preparation for the competition was optimal. After their victory in the VI Nations, France beat England twice and Wales in preparation. Nothing can stop them. Nothing, except Bernard Laporte. Under the impulse of Nicolas Sarkozy, Bernard Laporte read to the whole team the letter of Guy Moquet a few hours before their first match against Argentina. The result, was an emotional tension for the XV of France which loses for the first time of its history in the group phase of the World Cup. At home. In the opening match. At the Stade de France.

Yes, it is indeed the reading of this letter that will be questioned: It would have created an emotional overflow. After this great start, France fell back in its ways by winning its 3 other games. The result, a qualification in the quarter, but this defeat made a mess up all the plans. France will not play its quarterfinal at home but in Cardiff. And facing them, New Zealand and not Scotland.

But France has this capacity to be the favorite but to transcend with its back to the wall. And it is impossible for them to be eliminated outside their territory, a question of honor. So the French will make the second half of space to win against the New Zealand super favorites, with Thierry Dusautoir in destroyer mode. Well, by the way, there will be a huge en-Avant not whistled from Traille to Michalak. But strangely, the French are more indulgent towards Wayne Barnes than Craig Joubert. And then, as Thierry Lacroix says so well, “We didn’t see”.

After the storm, the calm.

And so arrives this October 13, 2007. France arrives by the force of things in the hope. Back on its ground of the Stade de France to face the English, with a posture of favorites. Indeed, at home, against English who have certainly beaten Australia, but have suffered a humiliation against South Africa in the group stage (0-36).

The Stade de France is overexcited at the beginning of the game. Overflown for about 79 seconds. The time to eat an air conditioning express. Andy Gomarsall plays with his foot to gain ground. Damien Traille is there to… watch the ball bounce. Once, twice. Not three. Josh Lewsey comes in like a Eurostar, takes the oval, and goes to demolish Traille to literally flatten him. A grand entrance.

If behind, the French pass again in front thanks to Beauxis, the match will be boring and boring. It is thus logical that Wilkinson will take care to eliminate us with his foot, and mainly a drop at the 78th. France, as in 1999, makes us the classic great exploit followed by a great disappointment.

The cherry on the cake, we will be demolished once again by the Pumas 10-34 during the match for the 3rd place. The Laporte era will end with this double disappointment. France will leave its own World Cup empty-handed, or rather scrambled. To succeed in eliminating New Zealand and to finish disappointed, a specialty from our country. The English will go down once again against South Africa. This time, they took care not to be humiliated. The phlegm of the English.

2007 Rugby World Cup South Africa champions & Runners-Up England

Rugby World Cup 2007 Tournament history
Host country: France
Dates: 7 September 2007 – 20 October 2007(44 days)
No. of nations: 20 (91 qualifyings)

Final positions:-
Champions: South Africa (2nd title)
Runner-up: England
Third place: Argentina

Tournament statistics
Matches played: 48
Top scorer(s): South Africa, Percy Montgomery (105)
Most tries: South Africa, Bryan Habana (8)

In the first semi-final of the Rugby World Cup, England vs France 14-9 at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis and qualified for the final to defend their title as world champion.

Winner of Australia in the quarter-finals, England continued their journey to a new title by dismissing the host country of the world cup France in the semi-finals after a close match where both teams relied on strong defenses. In this game, it was the English who won it especially in the scrums and on the defensive phases that his opponent of the day never knew how to punch to score a try.

The only try scored was the work of Josh Lewsey in the first moments of the match, taking advantage of a false rebound that supped Traille at five meters, then it was a fight between scorers, with Wilkinson on one side who scored during the match two penalties and a drop against his counterpart Bauxis, author of three penalties.

The English will meet in the final the winner of South Africa-Argentina on October 20 at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, while France will meet the loser of this match in a ranking match for the account of the third place on October 19 at the Parc des Princes in Paris.

The 2007 Rugby World Cup (sixth edition) was held from 7 September to 20 October 2007 in France, Wales (four matches including one quarter-final), and Scotland (two matches). This is the third final phase of the competition on European soil.

From September 2004 to November 2006, the national teams of 86 countries participated in a qualification phase, with the aim of designating the eleven teams competing in the final tournament together with France, automatically qualified as the host country, as well as the other eight nations automatically qualified on the basis of their results in the 2003 edition.

The World Cup was won by South Africa for the second time. They won against England in a match without a try.

Two nations are in the running for the world cup: England, already hosts in 1991, and France which, on two occasions, has already hosted a few matches in the finals (eight in 1991, at the World Cup organized by England and eight others in 1999, at the edition organized by Wales) More Info.

The 2007 Rugby World Cup Final was a rugby match, on Saturday 20 October 2007 the Stade de France, Saint-Denis, Paris, will determine the 2007 Rugby World Cup winner. South Africa beat England 15–6. South Africa, also won the 1995 tournament, in 1991 and 1999.

England vs South Africa became the second country to win two World Cups after Australia, who won their semi-finals against France and Argentina respectively, with South Africa winning 36-0 during the pool stage of the competition. South Africa started playing the final in the competition. Final Irish referee Alain Rolland.

Managed by. The match itself was a try – each team just scored penalties, with South Africa five-four with fullback Percy Montgomery and one center – François Steyn – and England two, both fly-half Jonny Wilkinson. Each team had one big try-goal opportunity, South Africa came late in the first half, while England came early in the second half as winger Mark Cueto was rejected in the 42nd minute after it was decided he had taken a step. Daniel Rossouwin’s contact with the ball before it touches the ball during a tackle by Television match official Stuart Dickinson stuck to his decision despite facing a language barrier that prevented the French broadcaster from accessing the frame-by-frame pictures.

Special Rugby World Cup 2015: all the numbers of the World Cup

Seven editions played, 281 rainbow matches played and 14,523 points scored. 25 teams with at least one participation, eight semifinalists, five finalists, and four different winners. But the Rugby World Cup, the world’s top rugby competition, is much more than that. Behind those numbers is an event that, despite its short history, has established itself in the landscape of sporting events and is preparing for its grand return to England in September, the very place where tradition fixes rugby’s birthplace. Since its first edition in 1987, the Tournament has experienced impressive growth in numbers, and the figures over the years have swelled to the point that the Rugby World Cup is now the third-largest sporting event in terms of global impact, behind the Summer Olympics and the World Cup. How has such growth been possible, in not even 30 years of existence and in just seven editions?

Formal writing dated 1969 and signed by the International Rugby Board, the highest body in the rugby world, stipulated that “the organization of competitions in which the participating teams are representatives of individual federations would never be approved.” Bearing in mind that institutionally rugby was born in the second half of the nineteenth century until more or less the day before yesterday the idea of a Rugby World Cup was not only distant but expressly forbidden. Fortunately, things have turned out differently.

The Australian and New Zealand federations, separately, set to work to submit two dossiers to the IRB on the advisability of holding a rainbow competition. The two reports had taken about two years of work, but they were worth the thought. On December 1, 1984, the two proposals were submitted to the International Rugby Board, and a few months later, in May 1985, a decisive vote was taken about the future organization of a Rugby World Cup. The ayes won 6-2 (New Zealand, South Africa, England, France, Wales, and Australia in favor, Ireland and Scotland against). Two years later, exactly on May 22, 1987, in New Zealand, the first Rugby World Cup officially kicked off. Was it a success? Yes. On what scale? Unimaginable.

The first boom the World Cup experienced between the first and second editions, organized in Great Britain in 1991. From one World Cup to the next, the total revenue generated by the Tournament increased by almost 800 percent from 4.1 million euros in 1987 to over 32.4 million in 1991, generating four times the net profit. As for the popularity of the competition, the Rugby World Cup immediately entered the hearts of the public, and in just two editions the number of spectators at the stadium doubled, as did the number of those who followed the event in front of a television screen.
And it is precisely the figure for television coverage of the event that is perhaps the one that most, and best, testifies to the success that the World Cup has enjoyed. If in 1987 the 32 matches were broadcast in 17 countries, with a total audience of 300 million viewers, four years later 107 countries will air the event reaching an audience of 1.75 billion people. With the same number of matches, broadcasting hours devoted to the RWC increased from 103 to 1100 growing tenfold.
Organizing an event in Great Britain, compared to New Zealand, presents many more opportunities for obvious geographical reasons; a much larger audience pool, and no time zone problems; these favorable circumstances and a perfect organizational machine explain the success of that edition. The 1991 Rugby World Cup was the largest sporting event ever organized in the United Kingdom up to that time. The whole of Europe realized the enormous potential of the Tournament. Even the organizers of the International Rugby Board noticed, and in 1991 they wrested a 9.6 million euro contract from the BBC to air 24 of the total 32 matches. Four years earlier, the BBC had also secured the rights to the event but paid about seven times less (1.4 million euros). Investors sniffed at the enormous opportunities offered by such a sounding board and sponsors invested ten times more than four years earlier. It is not a stretch to say that if the Rugby World Cup has risen so high over the years, much is due to the momentum of the second edition even more than the first.

A further boost came in 1999 when the format of the competition changed. The Tournament was expanded to include four new teams, for a total of 20 participants, and as a result, the number of matches increased from 32 to 41. In 2003, the formula still adopted today was introduced; the complex format of 1999 (which also included a play-off round) was revised and, with the same number of participating teams, the matches became 48.

Increasing the number of scheduled matches means automatically growing all the data considered so far. This also and especially applies to broadcasting. More teams and more matches mean more countries connected, more hours of broadcasting, and more overall audience. In other words, more nations to sell rights to and more expensive royalties. It goes without saying that the more the size of a sporting event grows and the more its popularity increases, the more the media must give coverage, extra match programming, including in-depth coverage. And it is no coincidence that it is precisely the 1999 edition, organized in Great Britain, that will record impressive growth in broadcasting hours, overall revenue, and net profit.

To break all records it will be necessary to wait eight years, cross the Channel and arrive at the 2007 Rugby World Cup in France. The total induced revenue generated by that World Cup was calculated at 228 million euros, with a profit of 170 million. Profit from the sale of television rights reached 113 million euros, with a total of 8,500 hours of broadcasting, three thousand more than in 2003. The total number of spectators in the stadium was 2.2 million, in addition to the 4.2 billion people who watched the 48 rainbow matches in front of the TV. It had only been 20 years since 1987, and the Rugby World Cup had already climbed to the podium in the ranking of unidisciplinary sporting events for nations with the most spectators ever, after the 2006 World Cup and the 2002 World Cup.

It should be noted that, for the reasons already pointed out, the World Cup organized in 2011 in New Zealand bucked the trend. And the discussion can also be extended to the 2003 edition in Australia, a country, but more importantly a market, that is more distant and less attractive than the European one.

But let us come to the present day. For the 2015 Rugby World Cup, the forecast from the economic point of view is record-breaking, with an estimated 190 million euros in profit, while the figure for spectators in the stadium and in front of the screens is expected to be around the 2007 figures. This last figure helps us understand from what perspective the choice to hold the 2019 World Cup in Japan was made. A choice that aims to practice new avenues, to open the doors to new audiences of fans, breakthrough, and establish itself in a market that offers countless opportunities on a commercial level.

Parallel to the economic and media growth of the World Cup, there has also been a sporting change in rugby in general, affecting both the game from a technical point of view and the players from a physical one. At each rainbow fixture, teams measure and evaluate the work they have done over the past four years, while the candidates for victory, by the way, they play, give important indications of the lines of technical and tactical evolution.

Speaking of changes, from 1987 to 2003 actual playing minutes increased from 22 to 44, forcing a radical rethinking of rugby players’ training methodologies and their lifestyles in general. Staffs expanded to include coaches dedicated to individual phases of the game, athletic and mental trainers, nutritionists, and professional chefs experienced in sports nutrition. The ranks of the teams’ accompanying teams, in the succession of rainbow events, have gradually grown larger.

About eating habits, it only takes a few numbers to tell how much they have changed as a result of the “transformation” of rugby players into athletes. Research conducted in 2007 in France showed that compared to 20 years earlier, an international rugby player’s consumption of food and water had increased by 20 percent and 400 percent, respectively, while that of alcohol had drastically reduced by 70 percent. Not only that, in 2007 the average weight had increased by almost 13 kilograms since 1987, but with a significantly lower percentage of fat mass and a higher percentage of muscle mass.

The responsibility of participating in a huge event such as the World Cup has gradually changed the way players view themselves professionally. These are the words of England hooker Bryan Moore, who played in the first three editions of the World Cup: “When the World Cup started, they began to see us as we had never seen ourselves before, which was real sportsmen Since the World Cup started, we have become athletes.”

When the focus on physical preparation reached very high levels, we became aware of another component that should not be neglected but trained and prepared in the right way: emotional balance. With the increase in visibility, media attention, and, above all, performance expectations, players were progressively subjected to ever-increasing stresses and pressures, and to handle them in the right way, preparation at the mental level became increasingly important. And that is why South Africa, just as an example, will fly to London with a professional psychologist on their staff.

In conclusion, the advent of the Rugby World Cup has transformed rugby forever and across the board. It has changed the way it is experienced inside the field, with ever bigger and faster players, but also outside, thanks to an ever more widespread and extended enjoyment. It is impossible to wonder what limits a competition that has experienced such growth is not even thirty years may have. We will have to wait for the 2019 Japanese edition to get some indications in this regard. Only then will we know how fertile are the soils outside the traditional boundaries of Ovalia.

New Zealand wins the 2015 Rugby World Cup & Runner-up Australia

Tournament details Rugby World Cup 2015

Host country: England
Dates: Sep 18, 2015 – Oct 31, 2015
Teams 20: 20 (96 qualifyings)
Champions: New Zealand
Runners-up: Australia
Third place: South Africa
Fourth place: Argentina
Venue: Eden Park, Auckland

Tournament statistics
Matches played: 48
Top scorer(s): Argentina, Nicolás Sánchez (97)
Most tries: New Zealand, Julian Savea (8)

New Zealand reached the final by winning their group by beating Argentina, Namibia, Georgia, and Tonga before beating France in the quarter-finals and South Africa in the semi-finals. It is the reigning world champion team.

Australia reached the final by winning their group by beating Fiji, Uruguay, England, and Wales before beating Scotland in the quarter-finals and Argentina in the semi-finals. He returned to the final of the Rugby World Cup after losing in 2003.

New Zealand started the game with great intensity but Australia managed to defend well until the eighth minute when a foul gave Dan Carter the chance to bring the All Blacks to 3-0 with a free-kick. Australia tried to react and, when Owen Franks did not tie up in a scrum, in the fourteenth minute Bernard Fowley could give his team the draw at 3-3 with a free-kick. New Zealand dominates as a possession but attacks in a chaotic way and cannot overcome the very good Australian defense. In the twenty-seventh minute, Carter brought the All Blacks back into a 6-3 lead with another free-kick after suffering a high tackle. In the thirty-sixth minute, Carter scored another free-kick following an Australian offside to bring the score to 9-3.

Three minutes later Nehe Milner-Skudder managed to end a good action by New Zealand with a goal that, after Carter’s transformation, ended the first half on 16-3 for the All Blacks.

At the beginning of the second half, New Zealand resumed attacking and Ma’a Nonu with a great running action scored a goal already in the forty-second minute. Dan Carter misses the transformation and the score is 21-3 for the All Blacks. Australia finally managed to attack and at the fifty-second, Ben Smith took a yellow card for a foul tackle. The Wallabies took advantage of this and immediately scored a goal with David Pocock who, after bernard Fowley’s transformation, reduced the disadvantage to 21-10.

New Zealand tried to react but at the sixty-third, Tevita Kuridrani scored a goal for Australia which, after Fowley’s transformation, brought the Wallabies closer to 21-17. Again in 15, New Zealand resumed attacking, and at the seventieth Carter scored a drop to bring the All Blacks to 24-17. At the seventy-fifth, Carter scored again, this time on a free kick from over 50 meters after an Australian collapsed a scrum.

Beauden Barrett scores in an incredible way, almost a coast-to-coast kicking the ball on an Australian attack and bringing it back to the goal. After Carter’s transformation, the score rises to 34-17, which is the final one that marks the victory of New Zealand, which confirms its title as world champion.

Australia had played very well in almost all the matches of this World Cup risking only against Scotland. Today, however, he played insufficiently, with a first half in which he had only a generally good defense but very little attack. In the second half, he took advantage of the yellow card to Ben Smith but in the end, it was too little. The positive note is that after a few years of disappointing results the Wallabies have returned to very high levels.

New Zealand started the World Cup with not very convincing matches but the team showed that they were just waiting for the really important matches. In the final he risked only in the 10 minutes played in 14, otherwise, the All Blacks dominated. Richie McCaw (photo ©Shudde) enters the legend even more by becoming the captain who led New Zealand to two consecutive world titles. For some veterans, this was the last game with the All Blacks so it is more than ever a special moment and the party will certainly be great. Rugby World Cup 2015 About More Information

2011 Rugby World Cup Winners & Runner up: Ten years later, a look back at the lost World Cup final in New Zealand.

Tournament details Rugby World Cup 2011

Host country: New Zealand
Dates: Sep 9, 2011 – Oct 23, 2011
Teams 20: (from 4 confederations)
Champions: New Zealand
Runners-up: France
Third place: Australia
Fourth place: Wales
Venue: Eden Park, Auckland

Tournament statistics
Matches played: 48
Top scorer(s): Morné Steyn (62)
Most tries: England, Chris Ashton
France, Vincent Clerc

It was 10 years ago, exactly. On October 23, 2011, the French national team lost by a small point to New Zealand in the World Cup final (8-7). For Actu Rugby, the winger Alexis Palsson (34 years old 21 caps), who was a starter for the event, agreed to make us relive this incredible moment when France was never so close to be the world champion.

Rugby World Cup 2011: Alexis, this final, it was just ten years ago.

Alexis Palisson : (He cuts). That means that it does not rejuvenate me. That’s what you have to understand? (laughs).

One can imagine that remembering such a match, it must necessarily generate some emotion.

And especially that it passes too quickly. I have the impression that this game was still yesterday. There must not be many of us still active, right? (there are 5 of them, with Maxime Médard, Morgan Parra, Fulgence Ouedraogo, Alexis Palisson and Jean-Marc Doussain, NDLR).

Did you ever see such a game again, with such a cruel scenario?

I never saw that game again. It remains a big injury. I experienced it as an injustice at the time. I never wanted to see the images again, so as not to reopen the wound.

Do you remember the atmosphere within the French team during the week of preparation for this final?

Serene! Frankly, it was a serene atmosphere… It was almost a perfect week in terms of training. We had prepared well. I have images that come back to me, like Morgan Parra in front of his computer analyzing the All Blacks.

During this week, the New Zealand people already saw themselves as world champions. The local press denigrated the level of the French team. The president of the FFR, Pierre Camou, did not like the speech of the New Zealand Minister of Sports. Did you use this environment to turn things around on the field?

From a personal point of view, I admit that I disregarded everything that was said around us. I tried to take only the positive, especially with my family and my friends that I had on the phone. We closed up a lot with the guys on the team during the competition. We were denigrated a lot during this World Cup, and we protected ourselves by turning our backs on all that and focusing only on ourselves. Maybe that’s why we got so far in this competition.

Did you feel like you were alone against the rest of the world?

We could see all week in the streets that the New Zealanders were getting ready to party. We could tell we weren’t the favourites, let’s face it. But it gave us one of those strengths. And I think that’s why France has never been so close to lifting the William Webb-Ellis trophy.

Our pack was impressive. I didn’t even know what I was doing there in the middle of all those guys. I was kind of an intruder.

Alexis Palsson
Winger for the French national team, a starter in the 2011 World Cup final

We follow you…

It’s true that we don’t talk about it enough because our journey is chaotic. We lost in the pool against Tonga (19-14, editor’s note), we won in the semi-final against the Welsh by playing a large part of the match with 15 against 14… Nobody expected us to be there and at this level. But on paper, we still had a crazy team. Our pack was impressive. I didn’t even know what I was doing there in the middle of all those guys. I was a bit of an interloper.

And what was coach Marc Lièvremont’s attitude in the days leading up to the final? Did he really leave the keys to the truck to the players?

Absolutely! Marc told us that this event belonged to us. Frankly, it was a very serene week. We kept the media at bay, as we have done since the beginning of the finals. Afterwards, we had an exceptional team. They worked hard on the day.

Alexis, this final starts with this amazing scene with your arrow opening at the last moment to face the Haka. Were you aware that this gesture was a declaration of war?

Yes, absolutely. And that was the point. We wanted to provoke things. And I think that’s what we did throughout the game…

What was the reaction of the All Blacks, starting their Haka, when you came towards them?

My impression at the time was that they were much more impressed with our gesture than we were with their Haka. We were in an indescribable trance. I have never been stressed before a rugby match, but for this final, I felt the stress rising two days before. When Thierry (Dusautoir, the captain, NDLR) came to see us one by one to tell us that we were going to make this gesture and that it was going to give us strength, everything went off and I told myself: fire!

You came out of 80 minutes of incredible intensity. But did you feel that events were not going your way, that this final was not for you?

In the group stage, the All Blacks gave us a thrashing (37-17, editor’s note). We were not as free in our heads as we were in this final where I feel that many decisions were in their favour and some fouls were not whistled by Craig Joubert. Afterwards, we play a sport where it depends on the referee’s appreciation of rules that are difficult to understand. That’s why I didn’t watch the game again: I’m afraid of having the frustration of reopening the injury and being disgusted. Maybe one day I should watch it anyway.

And yet, you had the opportunity to win this final with a penalty missed at the 65th by François Trinh-Duc.

Yes, that’s for sure. But I’ll come back to our serenity: I felt that our forwards were dominant and that we would get another penalty.

I was young, and disgusted at the time. Yes, it’s a great team that beat us, but I had a huge feeling of regret and helplessness.

Alexis Palsson
Winger of the French national team, a starter in the 2011 World Cup final

Isn’t the post-match ceremony, with the All Blacks lifting the cup in front of your eyes, the hardest moment to live?

It’s very hard! It’s like being told you’re the first guy to go to the moon, and in the end, it’s the others. All I wanted to do was go back to the locker room. And even home. I was young, disgusted for the moment. Yes, it was a great team that beat us, but I had a huge feeling of regret and powerlessness.

Did the All Blacks come to see you in the locker room, or did they have a word for you after the game?

Honestly, I don’t remember, or even anything that happened afterwards. I know one thing: it was long. I couldn’t wait to get home. We enjoyed the last few moments together a little bit, but it was a long way back.

With 10 years of hindsight, Alexis, did the French team deserve to be world champion in 2011?

On this game, yes! That’s why we have a feeling of injustice. But our overall performance in the competition was not “clean”.

Will this match remain the biggest disappointment of your career?

It is not a disappointment. I was happy to play such a final, to be there. The French team was a gift to me. When I was young, I didn’t even dare to dream of playing for the Blues. I just wanted to be a good club player. If I succeeded, it meant that I had succeeded in my life. Everything else was surplus. I forbid myself to be disgusted by that.

10 years later, what do you keep from this adventure in New Zealand and this lost World Cup final?

Honestly? Only positive things. It was a great human adventure. What was hard, however, was the preparation. People see a World Cup over 7-8 weeks. But before that, you have 2-3 months of training with short trips back and forth to your family. It was long and hard, you were physically exhausted all the time. It’s something else than preparation for a club. Final Match about more details.

2023 Rugby World Cup, can it be finally the good year for the XV of France?

I enjoy watching them. What the French XV produces with Fabien Galthié is beautiful. It’s nice to see, even if it doesn’t win all the time. The system of play is very interesting. I am hopeful and I am very confident. I will be their first supporter.

The composition of the French XV during this final: Médard; Clerc, Rougerie, Mermoz, Palisson; (o) Parra, (m) Yachvili; Bonnaire, Harinordoquy, Dusautoir; Nallet, Papé; Mas, Servat, Poux.
Substitutes: Szarzewski, Barcella, Pierre, Ouedraogo, Doussain, Trinh-Duc, Traille.

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2019 Rugby World Cup Japan™ Information

South Africa national rugby Team Champion (Springboks)

Host nation: Japan
Dates: 20 Sept – 2 Nov
Matches played 45

Final positions
Champions: South Africa (3rd Title)
Runner-up: England
Third place: New Zealand

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South Africa left a mark on the world on Saturday in the wake of beating England 32-12 in the Rugby World Cup last.

The Springboks had just lifted one prize this year after winning the Rugby Championship in August. In Yokohama, Rassie Erasmus’ group accomplished something that had escaped equals New Zealand and Australia previously.

In the past five years, when there has been both a Rugby Championship – or its past manifestation, the Tri-Nations – and a World Cup, the principal competition’s victor had thusly neglected to convey accomplishment the worldwide stage.

The International Rugby Board (IRB) mentioned that any individuals wishing to have the 2015 Rugby World Cup and the 2019 occasion ought to show their advantage by 15 August 2008; however, no subtleties must be given stage. A record 10 associations reacted, with the 2019 competition important to nine countries. Russia at first reported designs to offer for the two occasions, yet pulled out both in February 2009 for what ends up being a fruitful offer for the 2013 Rugby World Cup Sevens. Australia pulled out from the offering cycle on 6 May 2009.

The three likely have – Italy, Japan, and South Africa – were declared on 8 May 2009. At an extraordinary gathering held in Dublin on 28 July 2009, the IRB affirmed that England would-be hosts in 2015 and Japan in 2019, with the competition coordinators Rugby World Cup Ltd (RWC Ltd), going in courtesy 16–10.

The 2019 Rugby World Cup was the ninth release of the Rugby World Cup, the quadrennial big showdown for men’s rugby association groups. It was facilitated in Japan from 20 September to 2 November in 12 settings the whole way. The initial match was played at Ajinomoto Stadium in Chōfu, Tokyo, with the last match being held at International Stadium Yokohama in Yokohama. This was the first occasion when the competition occurred in Asia and outside the conventional Tier 1 rugby nations. The competition saw the main retraction of matches at the Rugby World Cup, with Typhoon Hagibis influencing three matches because of the normal effect on wellbeing that the hurricane would have.

POOL A: IRELAND, SCOTLAND, JAPAN, RUSSIA, SAMOA

POOL B: NEW ZEALAND, SOUTH AFRICA, ITALY, NAMIBIA, CANADA

POOL C: ENGLAND, FRANCE, ARGENTINA, UNITED STATES, TONGA

POOL D: AUSTRALIA, WALES, GEORGIA, FIJI, URUGUAY

How Playing Rugby World Cup Groups for the 2019 tournament in Japan. (World Ranking)

1. New Zealand
Hubris is their solitary genuine rival. Beauden Barrett and Damian McKenzie declining to mirror Dan Carter by dropping the least difficult objective believable in Wellington, so losing to South Africa reawakened under Rassie Erasmus demonstrated these All Blacks are underneath the 2015 vintage – for the time being. However, fix Brodie Retallick’s shoulder, make Jack Goodhue the occupant place, remove the kicking tee from Beauden Barrett, and no roof.

Except if the Beauden issue is unsolvable. This double cross-world player of the year (2016 and 2017) is performing beyond anyone’s imagination since grasping the hazards of slowed down dissemination on the mainline, gathered from Johnny Sexton, yet this is the country that dropped Buck Shelford before the 1991 World Cup (for Zinzan Brooke).

There is consistently another option. The amazing Crusaders out half Richie Mo’unga has benefitted from Ronan O’Gara’s tutelage to take a quantum jump in change rates – 65.63 percent in 2017 up to 80 percent in addition to during this current season’s Super Rugby crusade.

Cut Barrett? Difficult to see Steve Hansen bowing to outer commotion or returning him to fullback (where younger sibling Jordie should clear a path for Ben Smith), so this could be the stone New Zealand crash upon as they continued looking for three in succession.

Indeed, even with a 30 percent kicking return, who can overturn them in Yokohama on November second, 2019? The Springboks, perhaps. Most likely not Ireland, as history reveals to us they’ll be too battered even to consider finishing the work.

World positioning: 1

2. South Africa
They got fortunate in Wellington. However, Jacques Nienaber must take a dramatic bow for the Springboks’ coordinated and truly tenacious protection, notwithstanding six attempts.

South Africa is the second-best group on the planet for a similar explanation they have consistently been: their most splendid strategic psyche has retaken the reins while their best players, paying little mind to race or current habitation, are being chosen.

Their profundity of value in pretty much every position could be what screws Joe Schmidt’s Ireland into insensibility on October twentieth, 2019 (the quarter-last).

The “Lord of Thunder,” Duane Vermeulen, is still to return – yet where? The pack is being remade upon the portable brightness of Warren Whiteley.

Indeed, even Eben Etzebeth is battling to keep RG Snyman out of the four pullovers while Tendai Mtawarira has been passed by Steven Kitshoff.

More threatening than any other time, with a time of progress to follow, this can’t be an illusion.

World positioning: 5

3. Ireland
A year from now, Envision sees James Ryan, Dan Leavy, Seán O’Brien, Tadhg Furlong, and Garry Ringrose in full stream.

Abruptly everything would appear to be conceivable.

On the spot, Conor Murray is harmed, and keeping in mind that John Cooney’s vocation has woken up in Ulster, Ireland won’t catch the Webb Ellis prize without the Munster scrumhalf.

Like Cooney’s transition to Belfast, Joey Carbery’s change from blue to red feels like the last bit of Schmidt’s master plan; there is worthy cover in each position, particularly now Will Addison and Andrew Conway are behind set up fullback Rob Kearney.

Toughness remains the foe.

4.Australia
In Cheika, they should trust. It took the fashionista an entire four years to shape Leinster into European bosses. Three thrashings from four Rugby Championship trips on top of the Test arrangement misfortune to Ireland would all be able to be deleted by the Wallabies banding together to remain a definitive World Cup annoyance.

Despite an outright absence of value in key positions – predominantly out half, where neither Kurtley Beale nor Bernard Foley is the arrangement (Matt Toomua or Quade!?) – they actually have two of the best players in the game has ever found in David Pocock and Israel Folau. The pair have perfect inverse perspectives on current cultural standards – Folau being on record expressing all gay people are going to hellfire – yet they grasped like tragically missing siblings after Folau’s hair-raising attempt against Argentina (truly, his refusal to pass lost them a similar match).

World positioning: 7

6. France
They have the players. Les Bleus would be a steady top-three country notwithstanding ages of bungle and a homegrown association flooding with South Africans, Pacific Islanders, and Georgians.

See past the shambolic safeguarding on their visit through New Zealand the previous summer, and you discover looks at wonderfulness in Wesley Fofana, Gaël Fickou, and Teddy Thomas. Flick off the lethargic switch by solidifying Morgan Parra and Mathieu Bastareaud – who just got five weeks for attacking Christophe Samson – in each beginning XV, make Paul O’Connell the advanced mentor and comply with a cutting edge wellness system. Presto.

World positioning: 8

7. Ridges
Post World Cup arranging, while great in principle, is insignificant.

Employment One: beat Australia, something Warren Gatland’s period has neglected to accomplish in 13 endeavors; until this happens, they can’t be viewed as authentic competitors. It would have been no mischief to offer Wayne Pivac a free chance at 2019 with Gatland following Sam Warburton out the entryway, yet the reliability is reasonable.

All things considered, the Scarlets players will mostly change over the Pivac route into a public assault guided by Seán O’Brien’s best mate Rob Howley.

World positioning: 3

8. Argentina
Mario Ledesma makes them win coordinates and rivaling the All Blacks. That implies the Pumas are working admirably above desires as the arrangement of the previous Clermont prostitute has brought more than the normal violence. There’s a sharpness to their assault, for the most part, because of the spine of the group lining out for the Jaguares in Super Rugby, trained by Gonzalo Quesada, and keeping in mind that this structure requests extension to be manageable, the control of players is ideal World Cup readiness. Play-creator splendor of the Juan Martín Hernández or Felipe Contepomi kind is missing. However, they are loaded with pace while in advance Tomás Lavanini and Pablo Matera are a-list.

World positioning: 9

9. Scotland
No one needs to lose their advanced mentor a year out from the huge show. However, Dan McFarland is Ulster’s currently, so Gregor Townsend must manage.

Glasgow stays a delight to see when Stuart Hogg takes off, while Edinburgh clarifies steps under Richard Cockerill. The player channel stays an issue, particularly if Finn Russell endures a similar destiny as Johnny Sexton did at Racing in 2015. Sexton’s body never completely recuperated, Schmidt has expressed, and Scotland is in a comparable formative stage to Ireland four years prior. So much relies on Russell, who will be flagellated in Paris.

World positioning: 6

10. Japan
Jamie Joseph has presumably placed every one of his eggs in a single scene: the International Stadium Yokohama on October thirteenth, 2019. That being their last Pool game, and assuming the Samoans don’t start acting responsibly, the large Kiwi mentor needs to design triumph over the Scots to outperform Eddie Jones’ Springbok-over-turning accomplishment of 2015. In contrast to past competitions, the hosts are being dealt with like a Tier One country with an eight-day lead-in, while Scotland must adapt to a four-day turnaround after confronting Russia.

Triumphs over Tonga, Italy, Georgia and a draw with France in Paris last season show genuine improvement.

World positioning: 11

11. Fiji
Nothing new, lamentably. Most normally skilled rugby country on earth gets assaulted by French club institutes or the bait of a superior life in New Zealand and Australia before traveling north for genuine money. Overwhelming the Pacific Nations cup during this World Cup cycle means pretty much nothing. Yet, a Pool containing the Wallabies, Wales, and Georgia is shouting out for Nemani Nadolo and Semi Radradra to cause some ruin.

World positioning: 10

12. Italy
Conor O’Shea will presumably not improve the Azzurri’s spot on the planet request, yet he stays on course to leave Italian rugby in its most beneficial ever state. Treviso and Zebre have both created winning beginnings to the Pro14 while Steve Aboud is laying the underage structures that will, in the long run, produce elite halfbacks to manage the Italian pack where they need to go. Disregard this World Cup. They are in with All Blacks and Springboks.

World positioning: 14

13. Georgia
Another authentic rugby country, with a surge of grizzled props and secures ruling in the Top 14. However, until the Six Nations opens the entryways, they can never make economic additions. Rugby is either a worldwide game, or it isn’t. The treatment of Georgia says it isn’t.

World positioning: 13

14. the USA
In June, Beat Scotland shows the benefit of selecting Gary Gold, also Irish assault mentor Greg McWilliams. Rather, until rugby turns into a completely fledged varsity sport, the United States stays a dormant beast. The potential outcomes of rugby breaking into this market are boundless. The will is there, as is their appropriately supported proficient alliance.

World positioning: 15

15. Tonga
Triumph over Fiji in June shows that on the off chance that they are coordinated, England, France, or Argentina could be gotten the bug.

World positioning: 12

16. Samoa
Another unadulterated rugby country, racked and destroyed by debasement, with every World Cup demonstrating what they could do if the game had a level battleground. At any rate, one Irish player will undoubtedly be taken out in the Pool experience.

World positioning: 16

17. Russia
Ireland’s Pool rivals are guided by previous under-21 mentor Mark McDermott and captained by previous Leinster student star Vasily Artemyev.

World positioning: 19

18. Namibia
The Namibia public rugby association group speaks to Namibia in men’s global rugby association rivalries nicknamed the Welwitschias, are a level two country in the World Rugby level framework, and have partaken in five Rugby World Cup rivalries since their first appearance in 1999. The Namibia Rugby Union represents them.

Namibia has been playing worldwide rugby since the mid-1900s. Just as having contended at the World Cup, Namibia yearly contends in the Africa Cup. Until autonomy, Namibia players were additionally qualified to speak to South Africa, with Namibian-conceived Springboks including Jan Ellis. Starting on 21 September 2020, they are positioned 24th on the planet.

World positioning: 23

19. Uruguay
The Uruguay public rugby association group (Spanish: Selección Nacional de rugby de Uruguay) speaks to Uruguay in men’s global rugby association nicknamed Los Teros, which the Unión de Rugby del Uruguay administers. One of the more established test sides on the planet, Uruguay has qualified multiple times for the Rugby World Cup in 1999, 2003, 2015, and most as of late 2019. Starting on 10 June 2019, they are positioned seventeenth on the planet and are positioned third in the Americas locale, behind opponents Argentina and the United States.

Uruguay has reliably been one of the better periphery worldwide sides in rugby association, having reliably beaten Tier 2/3 rivalry from over the globe. Uruguay won the South American Rugby Championship in 1981, the main time (pre-2014) that a group other than Argentina won. They came next on 19 events and third the leftover 9. Starting in 2012, Uruguay has been named a Tier 2 country, which permits them to get all the more financing from World Rugby.

Their home arena is Estadio Charrúa in Montevideo and holds up to 14,000 individuals. Estadio Domingo Burgueño has additionally been utilized for certain installations in the Americas Rugby Championship.

World positioning: 20

20. Canada
The Canada national rugby union team (French: Équipe du Canada de rugby à XV) represents Canada in men’s international rugby union. It is governed by Rugby Canada and plays in red and white. World Rugby classifies Canada as a tier two rugby nation. Canada competes in competitions such as the Americas Rugby Championship and the Rugby World Cup.

World positioning: 22